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    Mom Critizied for photo on Facebook

    32 YO Maria Kang posted a post baby picture of herself and her 3 sons on Facebook 8 months after her last child was born. In said photo she is very toned and fit. she is a former pageant queen and fitness competitor who is also former bulimic.

    She says she posted the photo to "inspire" other women. The for the most part the comments she received were positive but as we know there is the ugly side of the internet. THe negative comments ranged from calling the photo a fake to being a bad Mom to accusing her of bullying (???)

    http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/hot...192149769.html

    I do however like her "non-apology apology" to the haters:

    “I'm sorry you took an image and resonated with it in such a negative way. I won't go into details that I struggled with my genetics, had an eating disorder, work full time owning two businesses, have no nanny, am not naturally skinny and do not work as a personal trainer,” she wrote, in part. “What I WILL say is this. What you interpret is not MY fault. It's yours. The first step in owning your life, your body and your destiny is to OWN the thoughts that come out of your own head. I didn't create them. You created them. So if you want to continue ‘hating’ this image, get used to hating many other things for the rest of your life.”
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    I believe MILF is the term. Damn.
    Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. - Starship Troopers

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    • #3
      Hey, good for her! I will never look like that (even before the kid/c-section, I always had a stomach no matter how many situps I did- and I'm up to 300 a day) but if she has the time, inclination and drive to keep that fit, more power to her.

      I think the caption is a little in-your-face though. The last thing a woman who already feels like a whale needs is to be told she's making excuses for not losing weight. It's great this lady kept fit during her pregnancy and lost any baby weight in 8 months, but some of us didn't or couldn't do it like that. The picture alone would have been enough to incite admiration and hopefully inspire people, the caption seems kind of mocking.

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      • #4
        yeah, the image isn't the issue that people took offense to i bet, it's the "what's your excuse" part. that's the kinda shit that annoys me, because it implies that anyone else's legit reason for not being that appearance (even if it's because they simply don't want to look that way) is nothing but an excuse.
        All uses of You, You're, and etc are generic unless specified otherwise.

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        • #5
          What Siead said.

          The image is awesome. The text is really insensitive. As if no excuse is legitimate but just a copout because she was able to turn things around for herself, and if she can do it, then there's no reason everybody else can't.
          Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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          • #6
            Or as if people do or should *need* an excuse not to look like her.
            "My in-laws are country people and at night you can hear their distinctive howl."

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            • #7
              Ana, setups wont give you a stomach like that unless you're under about 15% body fat.
              I am a sexy shoeless god of war!
              Minus the sexy and I'm wearing shoes.

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              • #8
                Really? Do you have any suggestions? Everyone I ask (including my doctor) said sit-ups and push-ups were the way to go.

                I feel betrayed.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by anakhouri View Post
                  Really? Do you have any suggestions? Everyone I ask (including my doctor) said sit-ups and push-ups were the way to go.

                  I feel betrayed.
                  Also the muscle building exercises in the world won't make you looked jacked if it's hidden under fat. I used to do tons and tons of situps, crunches, weighted situp/crunches, etc. I had pretty damn strong abs. Couldn't see them under the belly fat though.
                  Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. - Starship Troopers

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                  • #10
                    How to get rid of the fat though? I run, do the cross-trainer, stair climber, arc trainer, recumbant bike, yoga, and lift a ittle. The rest of me slimmed down after a year but that damned stomach fat...

                    Um, if anyone has any advice feel free to PM me so I don't totally derail the thread. Thanks!

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                    • #11
                      It's a persistent and very common fallacy that sit-ups and crunches - exercises that work on the abdominals - will make belly fat go away. The truth is that the body stores and retrieves fat in a manner that is completely unrelated to what muscles are being used. Some people won't get down to having visible abdominals until they get down to dangerously low body fat percentages. And there's no known way to do targeted fat removal, short of liposuction (which has its own risks and problems).

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by anakhouri View Post
                        Really? Do you have any suggestions? Everyone I ask (including my doctor) said sit-ups and push-ups were the way to go.

                        I feel betrayed.
                        Originally posted by anakhouri View Post
                        How to get rid of the fat though? I run, do the cross-trainer, stair climber, arc trainer, recumbant bike, yoga, and lift a ittle. The rest of me slimmed down after a year but that damned stomach fat...

                        Um, if anyone has any advice feel free to PM me so I don't totally derail the thread. Thanks!
                        You can't target fat. Underneath it, your abs are probably very well toned, which would give you a "six pack" if the fat weren't in the way.

                        Eating a healthy diet and continuing to exercise is the only thing you can do short of surgery.

                        I sympathize. I'm in the same boat. My arms and legs look like sticks compared to my middle section.
                        Good news! Your insurance company says they'll cover you. Unfortunately, they also say it will be with dirt.

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                        • #13
                          What is with someone asking if they were all her kids, the kids all share similar features, and they have her eyes and cheekbones.

                          Some people are blind.

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                          • #14
                            All of the kids are obviously siblings and of the same ethnicity as she is. Anyone asking if they're hers is an idiot.


                            As regards targeting fat: As mentioned, you can't. If you have one area of your body with more fat than others, you can blame genetics and get on with your day because to get rid of that one area would likely require that you have too little in others. My family has a propensity for the arm "wattle" thing. My mother and aunt are thinner than they've ever been, but they still have that bit of flab hanging down from their upper arms.

                            As an aside, most of the guys I know would think the woman in the OP is actually too toned; they'd much rather see a woman with just a bit of a soft spot just below the waist.
                            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                            • #15
                              It wasn't the picture, it was the caption that was pissing people off.
                              I know people who are in great shape and eat right, and they still can't get all the weight off. Since when do they need an "excuse" to be the way they are?

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